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Re:"Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my own ti... by iWhatever on Saturday December 04, 2010 @03:49PM (#1970091)
Yes, on your first day at IBM you were given the opportunity to declare IP that you owned. Anything else going forward belonged to Big Blue.
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Re:"Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my own ti... by markchristian on Saturday December 04, 2010 @03:59PM (#1970114)
Not true in California -- they can only assert copyright claims on anything you build using company-owned property. So, if you did it your own time, on your own hardware, you can actually fight back against this.
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Re:"Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my own ti... by dhimes on Saturday December 04, 2010 @05:26PM (#1970319)
Such was also true in the 1980s (I was advised- never tested it in court). Whether a signed agreement was enforceable was pretty much a state issue, but it was generally thought that they were hard to enforce (like non-compete agreements).
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